Folk Tales of the Night: Stories for Campfires, Bedtime and Nocturnal Adventures

by Chris Salisbury

Who knew about the Moon being captured by Dartmoor pixies, the dauntless and devious serving-girl, or the sleeping sovereign deep beneath the Earth?

Star stories and creature tales, good-old-fashioned ghost stories together with traditional narratives about how the night became, kindle the fires of our imagination and deepen our acquaintance with the dark in this compendium of stories to tell out loud.

Filtered through the wild imaginations and indigenous tongues of storytellers from all over the world, this collection is rewritten and represented here by a master storyteller from the UK, who has been spinning nocturnal narratives around the campfire for 3 decades.

This is a delicious midnight feast of 'tales from the darkside’ to fascinate, terrify, enchant and inform about the night-time realm.

Genres: Folklore, Fiction

192 pages, Hardcover

Published July 2, 2024

Reviews

[Rebecca]

Dive into these tales with an open mind! They are fantastically done, and will keep you reading far into the night. I enjoyed the many different takes from around the world. Absolutely a collection of stories that should be on all bookshelves.

[Esra Kahraman]

10 tane 80 yaş üstü insanla Bi campfire başında oturmuşum ve ben uyuyayım diye bana sevdiğim konularda masal okuyorlarmis gibi hissettiren Bi kitaptı. Üst üste okumak bazen yoruyor ama olsun yine de keyifliydi.

[Sandy]

My favorite chapter was the ghost stories. It was worth all the other stories combined to get to the chapter. I love stories like that, that are spooky not terrifying.

[Michele]

Great variety of stories from all over the world.